Lyrics Five Long Years - Live at the Fillmore, San Francisco, 1994 - Eric Clapton

This song is for all of you, like me, who bear grudges
Resentment, "Five Long Years" (one)

Have you ever been mistreated?
Then you know just what I'm talking about
Have you ever been mistreated?
Then you know just what I'm talking about
I work five long years for one woman
She had the nerve to throw me out

I got a job at a steel mill
Shucking steel just like a slave
Five long years, every Friday I come straight home
I went straight home

Have you ever been mistreated?
Then you know just what I'm talking about
I work five long years for one woman
She had the nerve to throw me out

I finally learned my lesson
I should, a long time ago
The next woman that I marry, she gonna have to go
And work long and bring some dough

Have you ever been mistreated?
You know just what I'm talking about
I work five long years for one woman
She had the nerve, she had the nerve
She had the nerve, she had the nerve to put me out